Last Week of Term 1
Holy Week has been marked in many ways by our children. This has been really noticeable in their morning prayer and religious education learning, and in the exceptionally generous response to the Pacific- [...]
Solomon Islands Mufti Day – Thank you!!
Kakariki team felt saddened by the disaster in the Solomon Islands and suggested the school hold a Pacific themed mufti day.They advertised and included ideas of what to wear in one of the Monday the School prayer [...]
Congratulations Raewyn..
Congratulations Raewyn P of Room 5 competed in the State NZ OceanSwim Series- Ocean Kids 200M at Takapuna Beach on 12th of April 2014. She came First Place on Female 10y with time of 00:04:01. [...]
Heading into Passion Week
As we head into Passion week the students in our school are focusing on listening and responding to the Easter Stories, knowing the symbols associated with the Easter stories, participating in a simple liturgy and [...]
Week Ten Whizzes by!
Whew! What a week! Before the week even started, we celebrated the wedding of Meidy Iskandar to Paul Lambert at St Mary's Church Northcote, on Saturday the 5 April. What a beautiful bride! Congratulations to [...]
Pupuke Cluster Swimming
On Thursday 10 April a team of 33 Years 4-6 swimmers competed at the Pupuke Cluster Swimming Sports, supported by a great crowd of parents and Mrs Cate Dunne. They won many awards and [...]
Congratulations to our super heroine Sionann Murphy!
Sionann successfully competed in the Weetbix Kids TRYathlon on Saturday, forming a team with her friend Nia. We are very proud of her and also think she may have a career on TV as well, [...]
Swimming Stars
Congratulations to Raewen Puntanar, Ally Basa, Leticia Adolphe and Madeleine McCarthy who represented St Joseph's at a North Shore Inter-school Swimming Competition! "We went to the Takapuna Leisure Centre on Friday 4 April with Mr Puntunar. We were [...]
Happenings from Week Nine
There has been a lot of sickness lately for both staff and children. It is timely to remind children about "safe sneezing" " hand washing" "nose blowing" "tissue disposal". While we can't control the bugs, [...]
Term One Week Nine – a Reflection on Developing Our Children’s Creativity
What a welcome sight and sound yesterday when the rain arrived! I'm sure the gardens and farmlands will be thirsting for more, but at least it was a start. All we want now is a [...]